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Exclusive: Mobile advertising to skyrocket
The sensational growth of the mobile application (apps) market is causing forecasters to take another look at projections for mobile advertising. Borrell Associates, for example, has dramatically...
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The future is unmistakeably mobile
This week’s Borrell conference on mobile money has revealed some fascinating concepts and thoughts that require elaboration. Let’s begin by acknowledging that nobody really “knows” where all of this is...
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The browser is mobile’s killer app
In Google’s view of the Mobile Web, the browser is what really matters, and in a time of everybody building apps, I think this is absolutely spot-on. Apps are closed systems within proprietary...
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A message from Qualcomm to Broadcasters
Qualcomm’s decision to shutter its once-vaunted mobile television product, FLO TV (a.k.a. MediaFlo), ought to send a clear message to the broadcast industry that subscriber fees for Mobile Digital...
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Blocking Google and its consequences
So the networks have decided to block their programs from the reach of GoogleTV? Interesting, albeit expected response to the awful (for them) disruption that the service represents to the television...
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Keep your long-term glasses on
When I was a news director, I was often hired in turn-around situations, where a company was dissatisfied with something involving the news department, usually the news ratings. Not every one of my...
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Smartphone “inflection point” reached ahead of schedule
For the first time ever, global shipments of smartphones have exceeded shipments of PCs. We’ve all known this was coming, but the most oft-referenced projection (Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley) had it...
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TV on portable devices, the real war begins
A battle is brewing between cable companies and program owners over the use of streaming television via iPads, and it threatens to sidestep the value proposition of Mobile Digital Television (MDTV)....
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MDTV is here
I’ve spent considerable time talking with people and writing here about the potential of MDTV to be a game-changer for broadcasters in the digital world. The idea is to put digital over-the-air signals...
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Push. Dig. Push. Dig.
AP Photo Sometimes, events in media are so bizarre that all you can do is just laugh. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (a great school) has...
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